Triple

T17378907
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Waitstill E422513 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Waitstill Winthrop
Waitstill Winthrop was a late 17th- and early 18th-century New England magistrate and politician, known for serving as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and for his involvement in the aftermath of the Salem witch trials.
E1266412 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Waitstill Winthrop | Statement: [Waitstill, hasNotableBearer, Waitstill Winthrop]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waitstill Winthrop
Context triple: [Waitstill, hasNotableBearer, Waitstill Winthrop]
  • A. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • B. Samuel Bradstreet
    Samuel Bradstreet was a colonial-era New England resident whose burial in Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts, links him to the early history of the region.
  • C. Isaac Royall Jr.
    Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
  • D. William Dyer
    William Dyer is the fictional geologist and Miskatonic University professor who recounts the disastrous Antarctic expedition in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness."
  • E. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Waitstill Winthrop
Triple: [Waitstill, hasNotableBearer, Waitstill Winthrop]
Generated description
Waitstill Winthrop was a late 17th- and early 18th-century New England magistrate and politician, known for serving as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and for his involvement in the aftermath of the Salem witch trials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Waitstill Winthrop
Target entity description: Waitstill Winthrop was a late 17th- and early 18th-century New England magistrate and politician, known for serving as chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court and for his involvement in the aftermath of the Salem witch trials.
  • A. Josiah Winslow
    Josiah Winslow was a 17th-century colonial governor of Plymouth Colony who served as a leading English military commander during King Philip's War.
  • B. Samuel Bradstreet
    Samuel Bradstreet was a colonial-era New England resident whose burial in Charter Street Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts, links him to the early history of the region.
  • C. Isaac Royall Jr.
    Isaac Royall Jr. was an 18th-century New England slaveholder and wealthy merchant whose bequest helped endow Harvard Law School, making him a controversial figure in American legal and educational history.
  • D. William Dyer
    William Dyer is the fictional geologist and Miskatonic University professor who recounts the disastrous Antarctic expedition in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella "At the Mountains of Madness."
  • E. Samuel Willard
    Samuel Willard was an early American clergyman and educator known for his role in colonial New England religious and educational life.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d889d6535c81908be333c01deaec4e completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43a840cd08190af3385388afb8c8f completed April 19, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a019ff344a881908f0870ac7ce8e120 completed May 11, 2026, 9:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01a089ac0081908a746c0c25cc12be completed May 11, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01a1c415dc8190ba8f7e2a8053917f completed May 11, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.